but i think he needs something more in taxes than the republicans are prepared to give. so my guess is that you won't see that. but it does have me very concerned. these are openly on the table. and you look at the condition of today's elderly, i think you're really hard-pressed to say that they have too much money. i mean, for 40% of people over age 65, their social security check is more than 90% of their income. and these are checks that average a little over $1,200 a month. so to say that these people are doing so well, we should be looking to cut back their benefits or have them pay more for medicare, that to my mind seems 180 degrees wrong track. >> i think to put it more bluntly, no one is willing to talk about the fact that social security and medicare cuts equal having old people die faster. and that the proposals to do that are indirect and they've labeled them in technical language so that most people won't realize that's what's happening. i mean, chained cpi, you know, that's a my-eyes-glaze-over term. >> consumer price index? >> right, and so that's the mech